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1) Subject:Google tashkeel tool
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Date: 01 Apr 2010
From:Wajdi Zaghouani <<a href="mailto:wajdiuqam@yahoo.com">wajdiuqam@yahoo.com</a>>
Subject:Google tashkeel tool
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Google have a very interesting new tashkeel tool, we should try it out.<br><br>This tool adds missing diacritics to Arabic text. Diacritic symbols are<br>crucial to identify how words are pronounced and to disambiguate their<br>meanings. Arabic (along with some other languages) uses diacritic<br>symbols to specify short vowels. In wiriting, those symbols are usually<br>omitted, since the native speakers can usually guess from the context<br>the meaning and pronunciation. Adding diacritics is an important<br>pre-step to several text processing<br><br><a href="http://tashkeel.googlelabs.com/">http://tashkeel.googlelabs.com/</a><br><br>Enjoy<br><br>Wajdi Zaghouani<br>Linguistic Data Consortium<br></span>
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